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host: david walker is our guest. here are the phone numbers to call to join the conversation -- host: if you manage to get through on the funds, turn down your tv. -- if you manage to get through, turn down your tv. david walker, what is the scenario you like to see happen next couple of weeks? you have laid out some possible ideas, some solutions to this situation. what would you ideally like to see happen? guest: i think we have to be realistic with regard to what can happen before the 2012 election. both parties have a different view about how to put our nation's finances in order. right or wrong, significant number of republicans have taken the pledge dealing with taxes. interestingly, we can achieve comprehensive tax reform that will end up generating more revenues as part of running the base, lowering rates that will generate more revenues and not violate that pledge. but we cannot do that before the 2012 election. we're going to have to reach an agreement to increase the debt ceiling limit, hopefully, enough t
host: david walker is our guest. here are the phone numbers to call to join the conversation -- host: if you manage to get through on the funds, turn down your tv. -- if you manage to get through, turn down your tv. david walker, what is the scenario you like to see happen next couple of weeks? you have laid out some possible ideas, some solutions to this situation. what would you ideally like to see happen? guest: i think we have to be realistic with regard to what can happen before the 2012...
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host: david walker is our guest. here are the phone numbers to call to join the conversation -- host: if you manage to get through on the funds, turn down your tv. -- if you manage to get through, turn down your tv. david walker, what is the scenario you like to see happen next couple of weeks? you have laid out some possible ideas, some solutions to this situation. what would you ideally like to see happen? guest: i think we have to be realistic with regard to what can happen before the 2012 election. both parties have a different view about how to put our nation's finances in order. right or wrong, significant number of republicans have taken the pledge dealing with taxes. interestingly, we can achieve comprehensive tax reform that will end up generating more revenues as part of running the base, lowering rates that will generate more revenues and not violate that pledge. but we cannot do that before the 2012 election. we're going to have to reach an agreement to increase the debt ceiling limit, hopefully, enough t
host: david walker is our guest. here are the phone numbers to call to join the conversation -- host: if you manage to get through on the funds, turn down your tv. -- if you manage to get through, turn down your tv. david walker, what is the scenario you like to see happen next couple of weeks? you have laid out some possible ideas, some solutions to this situation. what would you ideally like to see happen? guest: i think we have to be realistic with regard to what can happen before the 2012...
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host: david walker is our guest. here are the phone numbers to call to join the conversation -- host: if you manage to get through on the funds, turn down your tv. -- if you manage to get through, turn down your tv. david walker, what is the scenario you like to see happen next couple of weeks? you have laid out some possible ideas, some solutions to this situation. what would you ideally like to see happen? guest: i think we have to be realistic with regard to what can happen before the 2012 election. both parties have a different view about how to put our nation's finances in order. right or wrong, significant number of republicans have taken the pledge dealing with taxes. interestingly, we can achieve comprehensive tax reform that will end up generating more revenues as part of running the base, lowering rates that will generate more revenues and not violate that pledge. but we cannot do that before the 2012 election. we're going to have to reach an agreement to increase the debt ceiling limit, hopefully, enough t
host: david walker is our guest. here are the phone numbers to call to join the conversation -- host: if you manage to get through on the funds, turn down your tv. -- if you manage to get through, turn down your tv. david walker, what is the scenario you like to see happen next couple of weeks? you have laid out some possible ideas, some solutions to this situation. what would you ideally like to see happen? guest: i think we have to be realistic with regard to what can happen before the 2012...
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. >> reporter: but budget expert david walker says social security is the easy part. >> in basketball terms, it's like a lay-up. on the other hand, medicare, medicaid and our broader health care challenges are more like a three-point play from underneath the opponent's basket. >> reporter: now the people around this table, eight congressional leaders, the president, vice president and a handful of white house officials led by chief of staff william daley have to reach a deal or risk sending the economy plunging back into a second deep recession. the key relationship is between the president and house republican speaker john boehner. sources say the two men have had a series of private discussions on the debt deal that began nearly three weeks ago during a round of golf. the next step is that over the next two days white house and congressional staff members will put together specific proposals to cut up to $4 trillion in debt over the next decade. then on sunday the president and congressional leader also meet again here at the white house and that's when the hard bargaining will real
. >> reporter: but budget expert david walker says social security is the easy part. >> in basketball terms, it's like a lay-up. on the other hand, medicare, medicaid and our broader health care challenges are more like a three-point play from underneath the opponent's basket. >> reporter: now the people around this table, eight congressional leaders, the president, vice president and a handful of white house officials led by chief of staff william daley have to reach a deal...
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walker offers its own plan to solve the nation's debt crisis. the decision to overturn the ban on gay men and women serving openly in the military. megan scully looks at spending and overspending at the pentagon. "washington journal" is live at 7:00 a.m. on c-span. tomorrow, an assistant to the egyptian defense minister talks transition period. live coverage at 12:15 on c- span3. >> we provide coverage of politics, public affairs, non- fiction books, and american history. it is all available to you on television, radio, online, and on social media networking site. find our content anytime the c- span video library. span video library.
walker offers its own plan to solve the nation's debt crisis. the decision to overturn the ban on gay men and women serving openly in the military. megan scully looks at spending and overspending at the pentagon. "washington journal" is live at 7:00 a.m. on c-span. tomorrow, an assistant to the egyptian defense minister talks transition period. live coverage at 12:15 on c- span3. >> we provide coverage of politics, public affairs, non- fiction books, and american history. it is...
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we've got gloria borger and david walker, currently president and ceo of the come back america initiative. is there any case to be raised for not raising the debt ceiling? >> no, there isn't. we don't know what the markets will do and what will to happen to the stock markets and interest rates. for every 1% or every 100 basis points increase, that's $150 billion a year in our total debt. >> so how do you see the debate? what's your take? >> both sides agree their raising the debt ceiling limit but it looks like it's going to be a smaller deal rather than a bigger deal because the republicans don't want to do anything that could be remotely called a tax increase. after the 2012 legsst we'll get comprehensive tax reform broadening the base, lower rates and generate more revenues, along with starting to deal with entitlement reforms. but i think right now, we're going to get a smaller deal and kick the can down the road with regard to the tough stuff. >> gloria, is that what it seems like politically? >> it does, anderson. if you step back for a moment and look at this it seems to me really
we've got gloria borger and david walker, currently president and ceo of the come back america initiative. is there any case to be raised for not raising the debt ceiling? >> no, there isn't. we don't know what the markets will do and what will to happen to the stock markets and interest rates. for every 1% or every 100 basis points increase, that's $150 billion a year in our total debt. >> so how do you see the debate? what's your take? >> both sides agree their raising the...
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walker. the decision to overturn the ban on gay men and a man serving openly in the military. reporter looks at spending and overspending at the pentagon. "washington journal" live at 7:00 on c-span. >> you are watching c-span, bringing you politics and public affairs. every morning, it is "washington journal." weekdays, want live coverage of the u.s. house. supreme court arguments. on the weekends, you can see our signature interview programs. signature interview programs.
walker. the decision to overturn the ban on gay men and a man serving openly in the military. reporter looks at spending and overspending at the pentagon. "washington journal" live at 7:00 on c-span. >> you are watching c-span, bringing you politics and public affairs. every morning, it is "washington journal." weekdays, want live coverage of the u.s. house. supreme court arguments. on the weekends, you can see our signature interview programs. signature interview...
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control general and the comeback america initiative, david walker. i want to ask you, as you hear this, how is this going to come to an end? how will it go from posterring to policy that affects change going forward? >> the congressional leaders said they are going to raise the debt limit. we have to put the house in order. the framework you put up is not credible. there needs to be a forcing mechanism. we need debt to gdp targets. if they are hit, great. if not, they are automatic spending cuts and actions that take place to make sure we start putting our house in order. >> that sounds like the republican proposal in the house where they have to go to 20% of gdp. they have to cut to that. they cap spending. down the road, the balanced budget amendment. is the republican approach in the house acceptable to you? >> part of the problem, as you know, pat, the balance budget amendment in the house is really not more than a balanced budget amendment. it's talking act capping spending and gdp. the level they are talking about is not realistic given rising
control general and the comeback america initiative, david walker. i want to ask you, as you hear this, how is this going to come to an end? how will it go from posterring to policy that affects change going forward? >> the congressional leaders said they are going to raise the debt limit. we have to put the house in order. the framework you put up is not credible. there needs to be a forcing mechanism. we need debt to gdp targets. if they are hit, great. if not, they are automatic...
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": california's overcrowded prisons; mark shields and david brooks and the winning u.s. soccer team. but first, the other news of the day. here's hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: the lower house of italy's parliament gave final approval today to a new set of austerity measures. lawmakers passed the $99 billion package to balance the budget by 2014. it includes freezing pay for government workers and hiking health care fees. the italian government fast- tracked the vote to fend off the debt crisis which has already engulfed greece, ireland and portugal. the scandal swirling around the murdoch media empire forced an apology from the very top today and two high-level resignations. we have a report from cathy newman of "independent television news." >> reporter: this is the humbling of a media mogul. rupert murdoch has come to this central london hotel to pay penance to apologize for the first time to the dowler family. over allegations the "news of the world" hacked into their daughter milly's phone after she died. they arrived half an hour later yesterday, rupert murdoch
": california's overcrowded prisons; mark shields and david brooks and the winning u.s. soccer team. but first, the other news of the day. here's hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: the lower house of italy's parliament gave final approval today to a new set of austerity measures. lawmakers passed the $99 billion package to balance the budget by 2014. it includes freezing pay for government workers and hiking health care fees. the italian government fast- tracked the vote to fend off...